While the Lord would reject Israel for a time, ultimately He will have compassion upon them. They will be resettled in their own land. Then we get a crucial development: foreigners will join them and unite with them. It had always been God's plan that the whole of humanity would be blessed by God through Abraham (Gen 12:1-3). In Christ we see this starting to happen as the good news breaks out into the Gentile world.
Israel instead of being a slave nation will be a dominant nation. Now some might react to this concept, but we need to look at Jesus. He showed us how Godly authority works when He washed His disciples feet. We react because we picture things in terms of the sorts of authority that we know, instead of the Christlike authority that will operate at this time.
Israel had been humiliated and oppressed, but the Lord would give them relief from this. This is not just a matter of being set free, but of being healed of the wounds of oppression as well.
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